Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] not just " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a consequence of these practical deficiencies , the principle of strict traffic segregation has been replaced in most Western societies by a repertoire of policies developed not just to improve traffic safety , but to do so without detracting from the quality of life in residential districts . |
| 2 | Many of the projects arose not just because they seemed to be suitable topics for academic research , but at the direct instigation of teachers or sometimes students . |
| 3 | Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others . |
| 4 | In 1989 , Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders . |
| 5 | Agribusiness refers not just to large-scale rural enterprises , but to concerns which have an integrated system of production and distribution . |
| 6 | For its part , violence involves not just physical force , injuring or annihilating persons , but also |
| 7 | This was true of the declared intention to establish not just a common commercial policy once the transitional period had been concluded , but also of objectives which were to be sought during the transitional phase : a common transport policy , free movement of workers , and a common agricultural policy . |
| 8 | The world heritage programme depends not just on what the sites represent but also the way they are looked after . |
| 9 | From Boppard you can easily helm your car to view not just panorama after wonderful river panorama , but to great sights such as the Loreley rock , form which a rogue mermaid was said to have lured sailors to their death . |
| 10 | For we have seen that the bad consequences of an action are supposed to consist not just in pain , but also in loss of pleasure , and the good consequences of an action consist not just in pleasure , but in pain prevented . |
| 11 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 12 | Yes I think it 's fair to say at the moment that , that , that is being looked at Mr Trotter , together with er the broader range of issues on the er the operating concept er for E F two thousand but it is of course standard practice to buy not just the number you need for the front line but to buy sufficient aircraft to keep that front line in field for about twenty five , thirty years , whatever the life of the aircraft happens to be , taking account of er attrition , taking account of training requirements and engineering needs and support needs and all that kind of thing and all that work er is , has been done , is being done at the moment and er final figures will be put to that in in due course . |
| 13 | It is because Marx and Engels look not just at the laws but at the nature of relations of production within a whole system that this fundamental and analytically fruitful difference shows up with such great prominence in their work . |
| 14 | The result distorts not just British representation but the make-up of the whole parliament . |
| 15 | We each took students for whole-day sessions dealing not just with basic literacy and numeracy , but also with social and organizational skills , survival skills , and communication and co-operation exercises . |
| 16 | With respect to women , the loss derives not just from a low level of labour force participation but from the nature of employment practices . |
| 17 | But whatever we call it , this sense that words do not just have their face-value meaning , but are to be critically interpreted as indicators of tone and attitude , is an essential part of James 's technique . |
| 18 | This reveals that these words do not just carry information about proportions but also about speakers ' expectations , and even speakers ' expectations about hearers ' expectations and so on . |
| 19 | FAR LEFT An aerial view of the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge , England , with snow highlighting not just the stones , but some of the many associated earthworks . |
| 20 | Newspapers , journalists do n't just work office hours , I know they 'd like to but they , they I do n't let them but also a tremendous problem that they that that that you are always tied up in meetings and things during the day , you know , so make sure , try and develop personal contacts so you 've got a decent personal contact when you do n't mind giving your home number to someone . |
| 21 | Readers do not just read , they read for a purpose . |
| 22 | The trouble is , those images do n't just appeal to girls , they give them complexes about themselves ; worrying about what they should look like , act like , talk like , walk like . |
| 23 | The Scots do n't just sell electricity . |
| 24 | It appears that listeners do n't just ignore allophonic variations that ‘ do n't matter ’ , they can actually use the context-dependent information to identify phonemes . |
| 25 | Troopies did n't just sprout of their own accord . |
| 26 | In Ireland , where the rugby population is , even at the most optimistic estimate , around a mere 20,000 , the base of the pyramid is obviously narrow and talent does n't just grow on trees . |
| 27 | The A-Z told me that the gardens off the alley belonged to the houses on Lee Metford Road and there seemed no good reason why Nevil had not just driven straight there . |
| 28 | Having the same financial people on either side does n't just make for faster communication . |
| 29 | Distress does not just arise from the symptoms of mental disorder but also from the consequences of the disorder as they affect the social and occupational life of the individual . |
| 30 | The relative isolation of women from the public world of their husbands does not just have an impact on their access to relatives and friends but also , not surprisingly , on their use of leisure facilities outside the home ( see also chapter 10 , section 10.3 ) . |